Over thirty days have passed and predictions of the pessimists that we would soon be having a flock of funerals have not come true. Manteo’s new flying service is going strong, and the Taylor Cub plane with which it began business is still buzzing around overhead. Such conservatives at Capt. Lum Midgett and O. J. Jones have taken a flight in the thing and its six owners are well satisfied with results.

The Roanoke Island Flying Service, Inc., is owned by pilot Dave Driskill, Leigh Hassell, Dorian Quidley, Alvah Ward, Wilton Jollif, and Martin Kellogg, Jr. By paying in $200 apiece the boys bought a Taylor cub plane, and began making flights to take up sightseers, and to teach folks how to pilot a plane.

Pilot Driskill has his "wings," and the rest of the company is going to learn to fly. For as little as a dollar, they have been giving flights to customers, and as said before they have delighted many of the local folks of all ages by taking them up in the air.

The business was chartered April 20th with authorized capital stock of $100,000--a thousand shares with a par value of $100 each--and it objects as outlined in the charter are to buy and sell planes, operate and lease airports, maintain a flying school, service stations for planes etc, and promote airplanes races and celebrations.

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Top left photo is Wilton Jollif, one of the original owners of Roanoke Island Flying Service talking to the pilot of P36.  Top right photo is Wilton Jollif a Texaco Dealer, talking to pilot of "Texaco 24". Notice writing on cowling.  Bottom right certificate is a Roanoke Island Flying Service stock certificate.